Welcome to the week’s Pulse: updates affect how deep links appear in your snippets, how your robots.txt gets parsed, how agentic features work in Search, and how the EU’s data-sharing rules apply to AI chatbots. Here’s what matters for you and your work. Google Lists Best Practices For Read More Deep Links Google updated its ..
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Microsoft announced a wave of AI updates this week, and most of the coverage will likely focus on the individual launches. New targeting options, diagnostics, commerce tools, Copilot enhancements, and campaign features will naturally get the headlines. What stood out to me was the broader vision behind them. Microsoft is not just talking about better ..
Last year, I taught a module on content marketing around the PESO model (Paid, Earned, Shared, and Owned media). Matt Bailey asked me to include more content about influencers in this year’s module; I joked that it might take me all morning to come up with a new acronym. He shot back, “Can you adapt ..
Google updated their spam reporting documentation to make it clearer that spam reports are not wholly confidential and that it’s possible for personal identifiable information to be shared with the sites receiving a manual action. Change In Response To Feedback Google’s changelog noted that they were updating the spam reporting form based on feedback they’d ..
Google may expand the list of unsupported robots.txt rules in its documentation based on analysis of real-world robots.txt data collected through HTTP Archive. Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt described the project on the latest episode of Search Off the Record. The work started after a community member submitted a pull request to Google’s robots.txt repository ..
OpenAI’s public crawler documentation now lists OAI-AdsBot, a bot that may visit pages submitted as ChatGPT ads to check policy compliance and help determine ad relevance. The entry sits alongside OAI-SearchBot, GPTBot, and ChatGPT-User on OpenAI’s crawler docs page, bringing the documented bot count to four. OpenAI states that OAI-AdsBot only visits pages submitted as ..
Google announced two updates to Demand Gen ahead of Google Marketing Live. View-through conversion (VTC) optimization is now available for Demand Gen campaigns in Google Ads. This setting lets campaigns optimize toward view-through conversions on YouTube. Google is also expanding Commerce Media Suite to support Demand Gen inventory in Google Ads. This adds Google Ads ..
This series has spent five articles mapping what the AI search transition requires of your team, your content, your technical infrastructure, and your strategic framing. This piece addresses the question those five articles don’t answer: How do you actually make the organizational shift happen? Most teams won’t fail here because they lack vision. The failure ..
Money, obviously. But it’s deeper than that. Google’s market share has broadly held firm in the wake of everything AI. By held firm, I mean its share price has gone through the roof, and its AI offering is growing ever stronger. Happy, happy shareholders. Sad, sad people. (Image Credit: Harry Clarkson-Bennett) But I don’t think ..
The assumption has been that producing something more detailed, more original, and more useful would naturally lead to stronger results, since that approach worked in a search ecosystem where discovery (and success) depended on rankings, clicks, and users actively choosing what to read. That ecosystem rewarded the most compelling, scannable, or comprehensive option on the ..